Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:58:37 +0100, > Dennis Bj?rklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ps I've just changed my email name to my real name which is Dennis > > Bj?rklund. I did that 5 years ago (still using pine) and got angry mails > > back saying that my mails where broken. I hope the todays email programs > > can handle non-ascii names better... > > It still isn't legal to use non US ASCII characters in headers. There > is an encoding scheme that can be used for the subject header. There > isn't such a system for the from header. While most mail programs > won't crash when encoutering non ASCII, not everyone is going to see > your name properly. People who are using Latin1 for display will probably > see things correctly, but people using other extensions of US ASCII > might see such things as graphics sysmbols rather than an o with an > umlat.
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